Wash

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To clean with water.

   “The car is so dirty, we need to wash it.”

2. fiil To carry away or erode by the force of water in motion.

   “Don't pour that in the drain; it will wash downstream.”

3. fiil To be eroded or carried away by the action of water.
4. fiil To clean oneself with water.

   “I wash every morning after getting up.”

5. fiil To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten.

   “Waves wash the shore.”

6. fiil To move with a lapping or swashing sound; to lap or splash.

   “to hear the water washing”

7. fiil To be cogent, convincing; to withstand critique.

   ““And then, how could he know it was her coffee? No, old fellow, I don’t think that will wash.””

8. fiil To bear without damage the operation of being washed; to be suitable for washing.

   “Some calicoes do not wash.”

9. fiil To cover with a thin or watery coat of colour; to tint lightly and thinly.
10. fiil To overlay with a thin coat of metal.

    “steel washed with silver”

11. fiil To pass or extract (a gas or gaseous mixture) through or over a liquid for the purpose of purifying it, especially by removing soluble constituents.

    “Aqueous washings are done to remove water soluble impurities from organic products since normally the compound that you desire will be dissolved in the organic layer[…]”

12. fiil To separate valuable material (such as gold) from worthless material by the action of flowing water.
13. fiil To cause dephosphorization of (molten pig iron) by adding substances containing iron oxide, and sometimes manganese oxide.
14. fiil To mix up tiles (before a new game) to make them random; to shuffle.
15. isim The process or an instance of washing or being washed by water or other liquid.

    “I'm going to have a quick wash before coming to bed.”

16. isim A liquid used for washing.
17. isim A lotion or other liquid with medicinal or hygienic properties.

    “mouth wash”

18. isim The quantity of clothes washed at a time.

    “There's a lot in that wash: maybe you should split it into two piles.”

19. isim A smooth and translucent painting created using a paintbrush holding a large amount of solvent and a small amount of paint.
20. isim The breaking of waves on the shore; the onwards rush of shallow water towards a beach.

    “I could hear the wash of the wave.”

21. isim The bow wave or wake of a moving ship, or the vortex from its screws.

    “The ship left a big wash”

22. isim The turbulence left in the air by a moving airplane.
23. isim The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc.
24. isim The blade of an oar.
25. isim Ground washed away to the sea or a river.

    “The wash of pastures, fields, commons, and roads, […]where rain water hath a long time settled.”

26. isim A piece of ground washed by the action of water, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh.

    “These Lincoln washes have devoured them.”

27. isim A shallow body of water.
28. isim In arid and semi-arid regions, the normally dry bed of an intermittent or ephemeral stream.

    “Near-synonyms: arroyo, wadi, nahal (synonymous other than regiolectal specificity)”

29. isim A situation in which gains and losses or advantages and disadvantages are equivalent, or in which there is no net change.

    “I knew that for every vote I cast for, say, the Republicans, some kid at a polling place nearby was casting his votes for the Democrats, so it was probably a wash or close to it.”

30. isim A fictitious kind of sale of stock or other securities between parties of one interest, or by a broker who is both buyer and seller, and who minds his own interest rather than that of his clients.